The death of Mohammed al-Juri, a 17-year-old Palestinian schoolboy and gunman, came as no surprise to his family. He was killed at Beit Lahia, on the Gaza-Israeli border, during the biggest battle between Israelis and Palestinians since last month's assassination of the Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"We felt he was determined to be a martyr," his brother Ghassan said.
The gun battles of the past few days have injured one Israeli officer, killed 14 Palestinians, and wounded a further 45.
Juri, a member of Islamic Jihad, was killed by an Israeli bullet as he went to help pull away the dead body of a fighter from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an offshoot of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
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